On Saturday, the Woodstock Film Festival will screen the movie Gasland, which looks at the use of hydrofracking to harvest natural gas trapped in rocks deep underground. Hydrofracking relies on a blend of chemicals, water and sand injected under pressure to crack underground rock and release the gas. The technique is in use in more […]
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Today, the Adirondack Mountain Club gave kudos to the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for its proposed master plan on the future of Allegany State Park. ADK Executive Director Neal Woodworth praised the proposal to designate more than 80 percent of the park as Park Preservation areas, which must be managed as […]
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Yesterday, the state Assembly voted to approve a proposed law from member Sam Hoyt, a Buffalo Democrat, that would begin to untangle a century-old tangle of privately-held gas and oil drilling rights that threaten Allegany State Park. About half of the 65,000-acre park, some 60 miles southwest of Buffalo, is subsumed by private drilling rights, […]
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Yesterday I attended the IPPNY (Independent Power Producers of New York) conference in Albany. It was the most interesting IPPNY conference I have ever attended. First, it was the first public energy conference since Darrel Aubertine replaced Kevin Parker as Chair of the Senate Energy Ccommittee. While this could have been uncomfortable, Gavin Donahue, to […]
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There is a natural gas boom rolling over southern New York, as companies rush to lock up drilling rights above the underground Marcellus Shale formation, which could contain enough natural gas to supply the entire country for two years. To get that gas, companies will use a drilling technique hydrofracking, in which a high-pressure blend of water, sand […]
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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released a schedule of hearing dates on how DEC will fashion new rules to control a natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking. These rules, which date back to 1992, are being redone as the state braces for a gas drilling boom in the geological formation called the […]
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